Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy got an annual raise and a contract rollover for 2019. Gundy’s five-year contract was extended through the 2023 season. His annual $125,000 raise makes his salary for 2019 $5.125 million. That’s one of the top 10 coaching salaries in the nation. “I’m more energized and excited about Cowboy football than…
Oklahoma State fourth-team quarterback Keondre Wudtee has entered his name into the NCAA’s transfer portal. Wudtee, a Bossier City, Louisiana, native, has been at OSU for three years and will be a junior in eligibility. Players who submit their names to the new NCAA transfer portal don’t have to transfer but it allows them to…
Two sets of Cowboys, one from down the Cimarron Turnpike in Stillwater, and the other from Laramie, Wyoming, along with conference foes UCF, Houston, Memphis and Navy will visit H.A. Chapman Stadium in the fall to face The University of Tulsa on the gridiron. Tulsa’s attractive home schedule will begin on the third week of…
Chris Chambliss played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (1971-1988) with three different teams, but it is his walk-off home run in game five of the 1976 American League Championship Series for which he’s remembered. I had the opportunity to interview Chambliss recently, as he was in town to be the keynote speaker at the…
Grassroots groups throughout Oklahoma will rally February 11-13 in Oklahoma City to support the abolishment of abortion in the state and support Senate Bill 13. Sen. Joseph Silk, R-Broken Bow, spoke at a rally Saturday in Edmond and was joined by leaders of the abolishment movement. Senate Bill prohibits the use of abortion under any…
The full House of Representatives officially elected state Rep. Charles McCall, R-Ada, to serve as Speaker of the House for the 57th Oklahoma Legislature during Organizational Day. Organizational Day is a constitutionally mandated day for the Legislature to convene and certify the election results from November, formally seat newly elected members and elect House leadership….
Sen. Ron Sharp filed three bills in response to the multi-county grand jury’s findings in May concerning the State Department of Health’s financial deception in recent years. The grand jury’s six month investigation found that the agency had been withholding financial information, including a $30 million “slush” fund, from the legislature for several years. The…
Gov. Kevin Stitt has appointed Sean Kouplen as the next Secretary of Commerce and Workforce Development, a cabinet position that will require Senate confirmation, and the hiring of Brent Kisling as the next executive director of the Department of Commerce. “Sean Kouplen is a proven business leader and entrepreneur, full of vision, energy and passion…
Dec. up 13.4%, ‘18 up 13.2% State revenues increased by 13.2 percent – more than $1.5 billion – in 2018 compared to 2017, according to new State Treasurer Randy McDaniel. The state took in a little less than $13 billion in taxes in 2018, with $1.1 billion coming in December. December 2018 was $135 million…
Oklahoma Natural Gas (ONG) customers will see lower bills during the new year after the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC) voted in favor of an order that determines how the company will return money to customers from the 2017 federal tax cuts. The average residential customer will see approximately $15 in savings next month and a…